Conrad v. Dorweiler

LeGRAND, Justice.

This litigation had its inception in a written contract by the terms of which plaintiff agreed to build for defendants a four-plex apartment building for $36,000. Work had hardly started when serious differences arose, prompting defendants to call plaintiff off the job. At that time only the foundation had been completed. Defendants refused to pay for the work done, and plaintiff brought this suit in equity to recover $2842 and to foreclose his mechanic’s lien for that amount.

Defendants counterclaimed for damages resulting from plaintiff’s alleged breach of contract.…